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Through haiku, cultivate children's sensibilities and deepen mutual exchanges between children in Japan and around the world.

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Through haiku, cultivate children's sensibilities and deepen
mutual exchanges between children in Japan and around the world.

In 1964, while the Tokyo Olympics were being held, Japan Airlines organized a Haiku contest on a U.S. radio station, which sparked the popularity of this art form overseas. Forty-one thousand (41,000) haiku were submitted for this first contest.
After some interval, in 1982, JAL held a second haiku competition in the US, this time for high school students, as part of a tourism promotion program for Japan. In 1986, JAL exhibited Japanese children’shaiku in the Expo’86 held in Vancouver, Canada. Subsequently, JAL held the first children’s haiku contest in British Colombia, where fourteen thousand (14,000) entries were made.

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